6. You will have the option of choosing decimal degrees for reporting or changing to degrees, minutes, and seconds. Be careful here; be sure to put a minus sign (-) before your longitude since you are in the Western Hemisphere.

7. Next you will go to a screen where you give the details of your observation situation:

– Date

– Observation Type – Choose “Traveling” here since we walked from one point to another.

– Start Time (include AM or PM)

– Duration of observations

– Distance (you can get this from Google Earth)

– Party Size (# of people doing the observation)

8. Move to the next screen to start entering data. On the right, you will be asked if this was a “Complete Checklist” of everything observed. Check yes or no.

9. For each species observed, type in the frequency (number observed).

10. “Submit” will take you to a list where you can check for accuracy before actually sending in the data. You can go back and edit at this point.